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Early Life
onna Jeanne Haraway was born on September 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Haraway's father, Frank O. Haraway, was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother Dorothy Mcguire Haraway, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background, died from a heart attack when Haraway was 16 years old.[20] Although she is no longer religious, Catholicism had a strong influence on her as she was taught by nuns in her early life. -
Education
Haraway majored in Zoology, with minors in philosophy and English at the Colorado College, on the full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship. After college, Haraway moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin on a Fulbright scholarship. She completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale in 1972 writing a dissertation about the use of metaphor in shaping experiments in experimental biology "The Search for Organizing Relations". -
A Cyborg Manifesto
In 1985 Haraway published a essay "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s".The Manifesto a response to the rising conservatism during the 1980s in the United States at critical juncture at which feminists in order to have any real-world significance had to acknowledge their situatednes within what she terms the informatics of domination.According to Manifesto there is nothing about being female that naturally binds women together into a unified category. -
Primate Visions
Second book that she has published after "The Cyborg Manifesto". Donna Haraway writes a book called "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science" which maps out the primate studies over the course of history and across the boundaries of several disciplines. Haraway denies any attempt to present a non-biased or objective study of the intellectual history of primate studies. -
Simians, Cyborgs, and Woman
Haraway struggles that it will be a long-standing intellectual tradition to see society as an organic system not unlike that of a human body, and that the relationships in society are heavily based on dominance and the recurring notion of the oppressor and the oppressed, particularly in feminism. Science, she says, is all too happy to investigate woman and offer explanations of female roles in society yet it is also content to keep woman at arm's length in terms of inquiry and involvement. -
AWARD!
Haraway was awarded with the section on science, Knowledge and technology's Robert K. Merton award in 1992 for her work Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. -
Video Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gis7-Jads The video above is one of Donna's Lectures given